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Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Has the data centre of the future already arrived?
Freeform Dynamics 25 Feb 2021Predicting the future is full of potential pitfalls, but analysts still insist on trying to do it, even when a study of the evidence illustrates how wild some forecasts have proven to be. But back ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The consequence of IT failure on a space mission
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2021If everything goes to plan, an HPE edge server, Spaceborne Computer-2, will soon be running on the International Space Station, proving that commodity x86 hardware can be used to run mission ...
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Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted
Freeform Dynamics 28 Jan 2021In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ...
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Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The mainframe returns – as a platform for large-scale Linux
Freeform Dynamics 12 Nov 2018There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86 and public cloud being obvious ones. But there’s another option too, as I reminded myself when I caught up with Adam ...
As we know, the open source community contribution model of software application development and programming revolves around the community at the centre and its ability to augment, extend and ...